Nickshanks

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PGP key

Sorry for the delay in replying, don't check messages here as often as I used to. Yes I do still work in Hatfield, but no I don't have a PGP key; never encountered a situation where I've needed one. I have an ID commitment on Wikipedia because it's reasonably easy to deduce my real-world identity and in the event that my account was compromised I might suffer real-world reputation damage if I couldn't reassert control over it. Mhardcastle (talk) 07:04, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

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Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

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Article Extrasolar planet

In Section 8.2 Resources of Extrasolar planet there is a link to your website: http://astro.nickshanks.com/library/extrasolar.xml that displays an error. Also, the page http://astro.nickshanks.com/library/extrasolar shows Total Planets: 131 (After Retractions). It looks like you've put a lot of work into that, but if the data is outdated perhaps the link should be removed from the article. I'm new to editing, so wanting this email to come across polite and respectful towards you. Senator2029 (talk) 17:00, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I discontinued maintenance of that when the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia came online. — Nicholas (reply) @

Nomination of Year 2000 baby boom for deletion

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Orphaned non-free image File:Boulton watt banknote illustration.jpeg

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MSU Interview

Dear Nickshanks,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.206.39 (talk) 03:35, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

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June 2012

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Proposed deletion of Lunar government

The article Lunar government has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Greetings, a small offering and a clarification

Hello Nick,

I noticed a "Today I Learned" on Reddit, which irritated me. It was about the Georgia typeface, or font, and referenced Wikipedia. So I ambled on over, saw that your personal weblog was cited as the source for the alien heads story, and sighed in exasperation.

The Wikipedia article on Georgia typeface only quotes you selectively. Also, you don't provide a citation for that information in your blog, nor do you need to! Your blog says very clearly, "Personal Web Blog"! So I dug a bit, very tiny bit, saw that you wrote nicely and well about typefaces, might possibly be as good a source as any regarding the origins of Georgia font based on your LinkedIn bio, are indeed of UK origin, although I don't know why silly DomainTools says that you are running two different domains off the same server, yet lists that server's IP address as being physically located in both the UK and Germany, depending on which way I checked! I am not trying to be annoying, or unnerve you, I do that a lot with people, though unintentionally.

Anyway, I wanted to offer you this, as I was surprised that it hadn't yet been immortalized by WebCite: BBC News story. Thank you for sharing it on your user page, the original URL, that is.

Finally, I am now feeling guilty because I may have seemed to impugn your credibility, on Reddit, by mentioning your ownership of freeIPV6porn dot com, which I didn't intend to do. Do you want me to delete that? I am sorry, because I don't want to insult or annoy random people who have done nothing to cause me grief or sorrow, nor are doing so to anyone else. I personally think it is a rather clever idea, and wish that I had IPV6 in order to see what you have done with the site. Your third site just gave me some php /sysadmin style blahblah message. I also saw the page about Rebecca, bless her heart. She looks so pretty in her Wikipedia photo. I hope she is happier now, and I am happy that she has a friend here. Regards, --FeralOink (talk) 11:38, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi FeralOink, thanks for your long comment.

I was unaware that Wikipedia was citing my web site in regards to Georgia! I certainly didn't add this!

If the page you are referring to is /typography/font‐descriptions then I do provide a source, "as taken from within the font files themselves". I opened up each file in a font editor and copy & pasted the text from the area where font descriptions are stored (hence the URL of that page). I have however just noticed that there is an encoding error on the page, which I shall investigate.

I run many more than 2 domains on this server. The reason you see it as being in Germany sometimes is because my friend's always online server in Germany handles DNS and MX for "nickshanks.com" and palms off any HTTP requests to the Mac mini that sits under my TV in the UK. The UK server also handles all types of requests for "*.nickshanks.com". It's a complicated set‐up but works well with my DSL connection—I don't lose mail, I can redirect the dyndns pointer quickly if my IP address changes without having to wait for anyone else, and I have complete control over the web server.

Thanks for the webcite link. I did notice however that the "in a dress" part is no longer in the BBC article, if it ever was there. I wonder how I got that into the quote on my user page? I have removed it.

FreeIPv6Porn was an idea which I never got around to implementing properly. The goal is to give people a bit of carrot to get them to upgrade to dual‐stack v4 and v6, by offering something they would want. There have been a few attempts to do this before using porn as the bait, but alas they had all gone offline by the time I got my own v6 tunnel. Also, as I was trying to get hold of some content to put on the site, I realised that there was already more free porn on IPv4 than I could view in a lifetime, and that adding even more would not be much of an incentive to upgrade.

Which was the "third site" you refer to? As I say, I have many sites hosted on that machine, most of which I don't look at any more, and some are still configured even though the domain they were attached to has long since expired!

P.S. Why are you writing articles about Lunar Government if you are an Admin?

The concepts of extra‐terrestrial human habitation, becoming a multi‐planet species, interests me greatly. Consequently I happened upon a red link to a hypothetical article titled "Lunar Government", so I created it on a whim. I don't really care if it gets deleted.

And what is with that professor guy, leaving those creepy sounding messages all over Wikipedia during the summer? I wouldn't trust him unless I confirmed all his bona fide's, but I'm sure you know how to take care of yourself by now!

What, professor, hey, who, comment ça va? I'm confuddled.

— Nicholas (reply) @ 08:23, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Pro

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Better source request for File:Bhuza.jpg

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Image discussion at article 17 Mile Drive

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Old and crusty

Hi!

I just visited a page on your website: http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/sinhala/

It says at the top: "You are using Firefox 2 which is old and crusty".

I am using Firefox 23, so there must be a bug somewhere :)

Can you please fix it? Thanks! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 10:45, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Nick,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Earth-Moon.png is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 20, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-02-20. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:50, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of .home

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Nomination of List of stellar angular diameters for deletion

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At your request, I've moved the article to User:Nickshanks/List of stellar angular diameters. The original title now redirects to List of stars with resolved images. — Huntster (t @ c) 20:53, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Huntster. I didn't know about List of stars with resolved images — that's basically what I was thinking about when I made the page a decade ago or whenever, stars with resolved discs and the coming day when we'd have a nice big list of them and lots of pretty pictures. In light of this I might just delete it anyway. — Nicholas (reply) @ 17:17, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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Royal Opera House IPs

I've unblocked the range, as it doesn't appear to be used the banned user in question anymore. Please give our apologies to anyone who was unable to edit. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:17, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

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Your reference desk question about local versions of animation; mid-december 2016.

I own the Dutch/Belgian/French dvd of Zootopia/Zootropolis and the French version had signs changed. As I recall: the film title + the text on the cardboard in the children's play at the beginning of the film + the text above the gate at the police academy; but not the signs in the farmer's market after the children's play. Also the text Zootopia on the parking tickets was not changed to Zootropolis in the English version with Dutch subtitles. (This text is only readable in freeze frame.) Martin. 212.178.135.35 (talk) 14:31, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

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Facade pattern

Hi, I've gone and moved this page back, as per several references in the Facade article which explain that "Facade" (and not "Façade") is the more common usage. A quick online dictionary search also shows this. The move was also done without any discussion or consensus, and you ignored a previous move which explained why "Facade" was the correct spelling. Also, in the future, please do not just do a "find and replace," as you blindly broke several files and Commons Categories in the process of changing every instance of the word. If you want to change a file name, you would have to re-upload it first before changing it in the article. All the best, Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 19:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/File:Macosx-allfonts.png

Nick,

I just wanted to thank you for having "gone to the trouble" of creating Macosx-allfonts.png. It's very helpful to have!

Nemodomi (talk) 14:58, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:48, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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Writing systems of the world map

Hello Mr. Shanks I enjoyed the amazing map you created on different writing systems of the world on this page [1]. I was just curious to know which languages in China use the Latin script as you have shown some regions on the map. Looking forward to your answer, Chevalier — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chevalier Ali (talk • contribs) 11:57, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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Number of planetary systems with exoplanets

Hello,

About this page

Lists of exoplanets

I wanted to update the value from 4150 to 4155

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/

But I see that, if I am not mistaken, you are using a custom counts.

Would it be possible to link this counts to the nasa.gov website ?

Best regards Canado29 (talk) 18:42, 29 February 2024 (UTC)